Jewishness and masculinity from the modern to the postmodern
By: by Neil R. Davison.
Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature -- 14
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780415875868
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Jews in literature; Masculinity in literature; Postmodernism (Literature)
Description: <I>Content: "The Jew" as homme/femme fatale: Jewish (art)ifice, Trilby, and Drefyus -- Emancipation to das Muskelj'den: Zionism, masculinity, and the liberated Jewish body -- The feminized Jewish pugilist: racial ambivalence and weak muscle-Jews -- Gendered-Jewishness in Ulysses: Bloom as semi-queer Jew -- From Klugman to Pipik: Philip Roth and postcolonial/postmodern old-new Jewish gender -- Coda.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The Jew" as homme/femme fatale: Jewish (art)ifice, Trilby, and Drefyus; title: Emancipation to das Muskelj'den: Zionism, masculinity, and the liberated Jewish body; title: The feminized Jewish pugilist: racial ambivalence and weak muscle-Jews; title: Gendered-Jewishness in Ulysses: Bloom as semi-queer Jew; title: From Klugman to Pipik: Philip Roth and postcolonial/postmodern old-new Jewish gender; title: Coda.